Category Archive: Art

10 Jan

Gender Benders

Gender Benders

Why is gender bending not a part of Canadian popular culture?

 
By Alex Hayter
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13 Nov

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

 
By Alex Hayter
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17 Oct

The art of awe

The art of awe

Cube mosaics; giant one-colour paintings; dusty attic furniture: modern art’s got a bad rep. What’s the solution?

 
By Alex Hayter
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

 
By Alex Hayter
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02 Oct

Generation gap

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

 
By Alex Hayter
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28 Sep

District 9: just sci-fi

District 9: just sci-fi

Though it wants to be an extended metaphor for South African apartheid, Neil Blomkamp’s sci-fi epic is just a sci-fi epic.

 
By Alex Hayter
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

 
By Alex Hayter
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15 Sep

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Why Disney’s Marvel acquisition signals the death of comic books but the survival of superhero mythology.

 
By Alex Cybulski
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12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

 
By Alex Hayter
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03 Sep

It’s hip to be square

It’s hip to be square

Sometimes, what’s not cool is cool. And that’s cool.

 
By Alex Hayter
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28 Aug

Meshing the virtual and real

Meshing the virtual and real

Virtual worlds offer us freedom from the boundaries of reality. So why do we project the problems of the world into our second lives? By Alex Cybulski.

 
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25 Aug

Videogame characters of well-rounded esteem

Videogame characters of well-rounded esteem

If good characters cohesively hold a variety of characteristics in interrelated unity, are fictional folks like Andrew Ryan, Captain Price and Niko Bellic more than just flat entities?

 
By Alex Hayter
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20 Aug

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Author, comic book writer and sometime award-winning videogame creator Jim Munroe talks about the wonderful world of independent games.

 
By Alex Hayter
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16 Aug

Dawn of the debt

Dawn of the debt

Why our ongoing zombie fiction craze could be related to the recession.

 
By Alex Hayter
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